Word: mccracken
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...humanly possible. In my first year here I saw, met or was involved in an educational experience with Seamus Heaney, Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan, Alice Walker, Will Smith, Marisa Tomei, Ellen Goodman '63, Patricia O'Brien, Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English and American Literature and Language Patricia Powell, Elizabeth McCracken, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr. '60, Alphonse Flethcer Jr. University Professor Cornel West '74, Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Professor...
DIED. HERB MCCRACKEN, 95, college football coach; in Boynton Beach, Florida. During a 1924 game, Lafayette coach McCracken thwarted Penn's attempts to learn players' signals by ordering his team to form a tight group to discuss plays in secret. Many claim this was the birth of the huddle...
...hear Silicon Graphics president Edward McCracken tell it, taking away the executive's most prized form of compensation -- stock options -- would be nothing less than a disaster for American business. High-tech companies, like his computer-manufacturing firm, would be unable to recruit top engineers and software programmers, warns McCracken. They would then lose their competitive edge. "The next thing you know," he says, "the Japanese would be taking over, and all of Silicon Valley would be at risk...
...EVERYONE STEALS A LITTLE" seems to be the mantra of the McCracken clan. Mother pilfers desk supplies from her office. Daughter shoplifts for "something to do" and to finance her adolescent drug taking. Brother-in- law is on the fiddle at work and with the tax office. Son-in-law traffics in "surplus" merchandise from the family factory. Even the clan's stern paterfamilias Jack, for all his talk of rectitude, is not above bribing a prying private investigator with a juicy no-bid security contract...
When the play debuted in London in 1987, where it was seen as a satire of me-first excesses of the Thatcher years, its central joke struck this reviewer as peculiarly English. For centuries Britons portrayed Italy as the epitome of treachery and mayhem; in this tale, although the McCrackens are enmeshed with five Italian gangster brothers (played by the same quick-changing actor), the real savagery is British born and bred. London's production, directed by the author, had the advantage of Michael Gambon in the lead. His Jack McCracken was a true reformer, alight with the intensity...